Cloud Database Engineer - Phoenix, AZ (Onsite)

Title: Cloud Database Engineer

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

This specific posting is for a software/infrastructure engineer with experience in integrating, deploying and running relational and/or NoSQL databases in Google Cloud Platform and/or AWS. The candidate will put these skills to use by evaluating and preparing new and upgraded cloud database offerings offerings for use across Amex, and by documenting, presenting and explaining the appropriate techniques, patterns and best practices for their use to our application development, database administration, and operational support teams.

The candidate will bring solid knowledge of DBMS concepts such as ACID, CAP and consistency. The ideal candidate will have experience with enterprise-scale cloud database deployments, including intra- and inter-data-center high availability configurations, fault tolerance and failover, replication, cluster management, automated provisioning, upgrade techniques, backup & restoration techniques, security mechanisms, health monitoring and alerting techniques, and troubleshooting.

EXPERIENCE

Additional desirable attributes:

Skill at the Unix command line.

The ability to write code or script, e.g. for test harnesses or other database-related tools and utilities.

Experience as a database administrator and/or a Unix system administrator.

Knowledge of virtualization and cloud infrastructures, and of implementations such as VMWare, OpenShift, Kubernetes and Docker.

Knowledge of modern storage and compute technologies, including hyper-converged infrastructures.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

Desirable technical experience for relational technologies including:

Postgres, Oracle, or equivalent relational database technology

GoldenGate or similar logical database replication technology

HA and GDHA using Patroni or similar technology

Terraform, Python or Ansible

Database technology infrastructure including storage, hardware, backup/recovery, monitoring/alerting, security

Desirable technical experience for NoSQL technologies including:

AWS DynamoDB, Google Cloud Platform Firestore and/or BigTable.

HA and GDHA using multiple cloud availability zones and regions.

Terraform, Python or Ansible.

Cloud database technology infrastructure including storage, hardware, backup/recovery, monitoring/alerting, security.

REQUIRED EDUCATION

Bachelor s degree preferred.